Workshop C: University as a national good NG andor a Marketoriented university MO

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Workshop CUniversity as a national good
(NG)and/or a Market-oriented university (MO)

• Aleksa Bjeli,
• University of Zagreb
• Dubrovnik, 1 July 2005.

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NG and/or MO ? University creates and/or
produces?
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Autonomy

• Dreams of our founders
• University keeps (protects)
• fundamental national values
• and/or
• universal fundamental values
• (and fulfils these duties autonomously)
• Nation protects its universities as a national
  good (i. e. something invaluable)
• But then can we be autonomous and protected
  simultaneously?
• And (finally), we have to live

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Protection

• Fear of autonomy (still without fear of
  flying)
• Whenever
• - its tough,
• - and cold dark (no money for heating
  electricity),
• - and we are in our disputes (not knowing who is
  right),
• - and we feel not wise enough,
• - and we are climbing a steep rock from one
  plateau to another, being just in between,
• Who would not like to have
• some confortable, warm, friendly oriented
  authority, with a helpful solution (and, if
  possible, some money in addition )
• Simply some enlightened emperor Karl the Great,
  Friedrich Barbarossa,Peter the Great, Roi de
  Soleil, Napoleon, Maria Theresia, Franz Joseph,
  Queen Victoria,
• (but be careful with XX century, its still too
  close who remembers Heidegger, Oppenheimer,
  Sakharov, ?)

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XXI Century (still without Fox) presents

• AND NOW, his (or her) majesty
• Capital
• (and exciting brave new future )

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• But still, from the beginning (od stoljeca
  jedanaestog), and always, how sweet it is
• - to have your brain,
• and your thoughts,
• and your solutions,
• and to be first with them
• And, until now,
• od stoljeca jedanaestog,
• universities always won at the end